Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-11-16

Instantly opening his eyes turned his
head and smiled just as. pleasantly
street Spies and Parsons also smiled and
turned their heads to those behind them.
When Parsons legs were tied he looked down
and watched the adjustment OF the cord with a
smile OF curious interest. Fischer held his
head high in air and actually looked amused.
The nooses were adjusted at II 40, frst.to Spies
in turn The men still maintained their haugh-
ty bearing. The white caps were then drawn
over their heads, Spies having his face covered
first. For some reason Fischer was skipped,
and Eingel and Parsons were next covered with
the caps. - . r@as~ -
For an instant, there was q dead silence,
from behind the first right-hand mask, and cut
the DIR like wall OF sorrow and Of ming
Spies was speaking from behind his shroud
The words seemed to drop into the cold, silent
air like pellets of fire. Here is what he said:
" 1t IS not meet that I should speak here,
where my silence is more terrible than my
+: Then deeper, stronger voice came out with
mufhed. mysterious cadence from behind the
white pail that hid the face of Fischer. He only
spoke eight words; This is the happiest mo-
But the next voice that catches up the re-
Train is different one. 1t was firm, but the
loud, exultant. Engel was cheering for an
archy $Hurrah Tor anarchy! Hurrah! were
the last words and the last cheer Of George
Engel
But now the weifd ard CHASTITY scene was
brought to n climax. Parsons alone remained
to speak. Out from behind his mask his voice
sounded more sad, and there was a more
dreary, reproachful tone in It than even IN
Spies. May be allowed to speak? Oh, men
Of Amer ear he cried, "may bs allowed tho
privilege OF speech even at the last moments
Harken to the voice OF the people -"
There was q sudden pause. Parsons never
spoke word more. A sharp, creaklnS noise, o
crash, siekenng, csaekling sound, and Spies,
The drop was about five feet eight inches.
The stage on which the condemned men stood
retreated about fifteen ~ teet and was
" thirty-tive feet. The trap extended
midway across the platform, aud when the
structure, leaving the four bodies suspended
about four feet from the ground. The method
employed for this purpose Is somewhat pecul-
stout rope, which, when in state Of tension.
sustained the death drop. The signal given,
the man in the box placed keen chisel
the rope, and, striking with mallet, the trap
fell.
The body of Spies struggled feartully at first.
Fischer DID not move for moment or two, and
ments, during which his cow was disarranged,
exposing part OF his face, until the body was
turned around by the physician who was ex-
aiming the pulse.
had fallen When Parsons body fell it re-
NAMED stationary for some moments. Then
the head nodded back and forth while the
vuised and the bosom heaved so hard
that it seemed as it it would burst
through the envelop1ng shroud. With another
tween life and death ended, and ut the end of a
few seconds more than two minutes the doctor
declared Parsons to be dead.
The four physicians who examined respect
lively the bodies of Parsons, Enge1 and Fischer
were satisfied that all these three had died
from strangulation- The doctor who examined
Spies seemed to be in doubt as to whether the
latter's neck was broken or not The three
OTHER doctors, however, seemed to think that
Spies neck was not broken, but that his strong
convu1sive motions were due to 81 ght Slip
ping OF the rope to Il higher position the
neck than it should have been. Engle had his
trachae or wiudpipe broken or rather torn.
When all the bodies had been arranged in
the collins the physics MS made another ex-
animation, and then the lids were placed on
the collins, and the work was done.
The condemned men directed that their
bodies be turned over to their wives, except
Spies, who wanted his body given to his
mother. Their wishes will be respected, and
Coroner Hertz has directed that the body OF
Lingg be ven to Mrs. Engel and the Garpen-
ters Union accordance with Lingg's request,
SO that they may ali be buried together.
The news was received silently, almost sud-
denly, by the crowd in the vicinity of the jail,
which soon melted away. It was estimated by
Lieutenant Steele that only about 5000 people
were in the crowd around the jail, but they
were kept constantly moving. AS the crowd
was ,"rnsG ~ an p' sbnnt 20 naon1a aotharsa Nv
tha straat 49, 1880 ' ra"a nnd I.a.s ua
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said nat word - - - A PeopAe
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